Pete Howard is a serious collector seeking old (pre-1970) concert posters and music memorabilia, and who pays the very best prices. He lives in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Please contact him at pete@postercentral.com or (805) 540-0020.

A Bob Dylan concert poster from October 23, 1965 for a show at the University of Vermont’s Patrick Gym in Burlington, VT.

Despite this concert placard depicting Dylan in an acoustic setting, this concert broadside / billboard / placard / display (make your choice!) advertised a folk-rock concert. If you’re a fan, you know that Dylan would play the first half of his show solo acoustic, and then second half with The Hawks as a full-on rock concert.

This Bob Dylan window card from his 1965 tour with The Hawks (later to become The Band) features a big acoustic-guitar photograph of Dylan, snapped by Daniel Kramer.

Credit where it’s due: this Bob Dylan tour-blank concert poster was made by the Murray Poster Printing Company of New York, was manufactured on cardboard, and has dimensions of approximately 14 x 22”. The detailed info found below was printed later in usually black or red ink, making the blue printing here rather atypical.

The exacting wording on this Bob Dylan telephone-pole concert poster, just as it reads from top to bottom: “BOB DYLAN – (then in tiny letters) Photograph: Daniel Kramer

The name given to this Bob Dylan broadside is a “tour blank,” used all along the tour, with each concert’s venue information – date, city, venue name, ticket price and instructions – printed in down below following the main body of the poster (the photograph), which was obviously printed ahead of time.

Therefore, the following posters were probably all made, because these are all confirmed cities & dates on this 1965 tour:

This 1960s Bob Dylan window placard is a strong example of a boxing-style concert poster from early in Dylan’s career. The poster, however, lends itself easily to damage because of the large amount of black in the photograph, which can show bends & tears, thumbtack holes, fingerprints, etc. very easily.

I’m Pete Howard, I’ve been a serious Bob Dylan collector since 1972, and I can be reached at pete@postercentral.com or (805) 540.0020. As such, I will pay TOP DOLLAR for any Bob Dylan vintage 1960s concert poster such as this one.